Human Rickettsia felis infection, Canary Islands, Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1961-1964

  Pérez Arellano, Jose Luis ^a,b   Fenollar, Florence ^c   Angel Moreno, Alfonso ^a,b   Bolaños, Margarita ^a,b   Hernández, Michele ^a,b   Santana, Evora ^a,b   Hemmersbach Miller, Marion ^a,b   Martín, Antonio M ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^c,d  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOG; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLEA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIOSIS; SPAIN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 33644823960     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1112.050711     Document Type: Article

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